Election

_Election_ is an arcade adventure as you try to become Prime Minister
released at the time the UK was having its own election in 1987. You have the
choice of five candidates based on real people at the time, Matcher
(Conservatives), Ninnock (Labour), Paul (Idealists), Owing (Alliance) and Pig-
Iron (Alliance). Once you have selected your candidate it’s time to go out
into the big wide world viewed from above and flick-screen, and attempt to get
101 votes or more to get the majority needed to become Prime Minister.

You travel around the area trying to convince people who roam around the
various screens to vote for you by talking to them, picking up manifestos or
picking up various icons. You move your candidate around with the joystick and
to complete other actions you select options from a menu like take, drop,
give, ask, order, canvass and slur. If you come across a manifesto you must
take it back to your HQ before placing it in a special location shown by a map
provided with the game. Icons you will come across on your travels will
increase your credibility, celebrity, slur fellow politicians and give
incentives for your party members. The hardest route is a clean campaign but
taking the easy route of dirty tactics can work against you as the other
politicians start a dirty campaign against you.

Election